Patient Resources

​Engaging Individuals with Lived Experience

The Engaging Individuals with Lived Experience Framework, Roadmap and Guide developed through the Primary Health Care Opioid Response Initiative provides a framework for ensuring individuals with lived experience engaged in the planning, design, build, and implementation of activities are supported in a proactive, and patient-centered way, free of judgement and bias.

• Engaging Individuals with Lived Experience: Roadmap 

• Engaging Individuals with Lived Experience: A Working Guide

• Engaging Individuals with Lived Experience: A Framework

Patient Resources

The following opioid tools and resources are available for patients, family and friends.

• Opioid Use Disorder and You Brochure (developed by ESCN)

• Suboxone and You Brochure (developed by ESCN)

• Suboxone and You Video (developed by ESCN)

• Suboxone: A Handbook for Patients (developed by TrueNorth Medical Centre)

• Let's Talk About Opioids Poster

• Edmonton Zone HUTV Opioid Patient Awareness Campaign Presentation

• Edmonton Zone HUTV Opioid Patient Awareness Video

• Gone too Soon: Navigating Grief and Loss as a Result of Substance Use Handbook

• College of Physicians and Surgeons of Alberta Patient Resources:

• Opioid Safety for Patients with Chronic Pain 
• Opioid Safety for Patients with Acute Pain
• Safe Prescribing for Opioid Use Disorder – Patient FAQs

• A Booklet for People Who May Benefit From Reducing or Stopping Their Opioids (developed by RX Files)

• Opioids: When you need them and when you don't (developed by Choosing Wisely Canada)

• Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) Patient Resources:

• Opioids: How to Use Them Safely Information Sheet

• Straight Talk - Oxycodone 

• Street Fentanyl

• About Percs, Oxys and Other Pain Pills Information Sheet 

• Straight Talk – Street Methadone Information Sheet

• Opioids: What You and Your Friends Need to Know Information Sheet (for Youth)

• Youth and Prescription Painkillers

• Youth and Prescription Painkillers: What Parents Need to Know Information Sheet 

• Making the Choice, Making it Work: Treatment for Opioid Addiction Handbook